The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-08-02
One Hundred Business Men Char
ter q Train And Pass
Through Here This
Evening to Wash
ingtOn.
The Matter Kept a PrOfund Sc
cret From Sedalia and st.
Louis, to This Date,
Successfully.
Will Arrive i'm Washington We'd
nesday Morning, While
the st. Louis Delega-
ton Sleep and
SnOre.

1t is all the rage now to invite
President Cleveland to visit the West,
to view corner lots and see corn twenty
feet high.
Yes, Mr.. Cleveland, in behalf OF
the people of Central Missouri, you
are invited by THE BAzoo to visit
Sedalia.
Capt. Bill McFatridge. of Flat
creek township, was in town this
morning buying step ladders and
hatchets to be prepared to gather corn
this fall.
Mister Cleveland, we can tell you
how to make good thing. Buy up
all the step ladders and hatchets-
make a corner-raise the price
and when the people of Central
Missouri come to gather their
corn, they will have to buy ladders
and hatchets, and of course you can
sell and make more money than your
salary as president.
Well, st. Louis has had long and
fitful fever over inviting the president
to that place. She had him commit.
ted to the scheme once, but DR.. futile
and Midwife Fairchild looked at his
tongue and felt his pulse, and after
these two WORTHLESS had diagnosed his
case, they told his mother-in-law to
keep him at home.
He then wrote letter to Mayor
Frances, and said mix cum arouse"
St. Joe, falling into line, sent an in
vitation on Friday last to the presi-
dent, inviting him to that city. The
invitation was probably ushered into
his presence to-day.
The BAzoo don't know how he
received, it, but probably he ejacu-
lated: "Dan, what's the matter of
the people out west%
Dan-Got worms, | guess.
Saturday night, Seventy-two hale
and hearty corn bread crushers took
sleeping cars at the st. Louis union
depot for Washington, to re-invite
the president to st. Louis in October,
after the G. A. r. cranks There are
only a few of them cranky have
shook the dust of the city from their
shoes.
This delegation of city people and
rnral roosters are expected to arrive
in Washington Tuesday evening.
What's the matter with Kansas
city!
Is that place of "go, high priced real
estate and mysterious disappearance
of girls, going to be left out of this
game of invite?
Not much, Mrs. Lydia Pinkham.
Here are the naked facts which a
Kansas City man told a BAzoo re-
porter this morning, who swore him
to keep it a profound secret until 4
o'clock to-day.
We both swore by the blades of
grass that grow upward on the court
yard lawn.
Five days ago Jim Gibson and a
few other enthusiastic citizens of Kan
sas City, met and said:
Lets invite the president J"
Hush, keep quiet, hold your breath
pass word to our meetings shall be
''Grover," in honor of our guest next
October.
st. Louis and Sedalia must be kept
in ignorance of our plans, or there
will be no use of this meeting.
A committee arranged with the rail
roads in few hours and special
train, consisting of one locomotive,
three Pullman sleepers, one dining
car, one baggage car, for-baggage
only, one engineer, one fireman, one
and two brakemen, were
secured to Washington and return, to |
100 business men there to in |
vite the president to Kansas City to |
ride on the elevated railroad.
"Don't say a word, so that the st. |
Louis papers and the Sedalia BAzoo
will hear of it, for if they do learn of
the scheme, the jig is up" said Ticket |
Agent Jewett, as he held his index
finger of his right hand to his lips ,
The train will leave Kansas City at
4 p. m. to-day end arrive at Sedalia
1t $40.
1t will not take supper at the Goat
House, but will arrive In st. Louis |
1T l a. m. tomorrow.
The whistle of the locomotive will |
be muffled with one of Col. Geo. w. |
Warder's socks, while they pass over
the great bridge and take the Wanda
ia line and arrive in Washington
Wednesday morning at seven o'clock.
They will march directly to
the White House before the st.